How do heredity and environment influence the child’s development?
How should you introduce your child to relatives, friends and neighbours? How should you ‘tell’ the child about adoption? What should you do when the child ‘searches’ for roots and identity? Not flesh of my flesh Nor bone of my bone But miraculously my very own. Never forget for a single moment, You didn’t grow under my heart, But in it. by Fleur Heyliger A PARADOX IN INDIAN SOCIETY is that, on the one hand, it greatly values fertility and motherhood within marriage, but on the other, it totally rejects and ostracises the unwed mother and the child born out of wed-lock, to the extent that the mother is compelled to give up her child for adoption. Most of the children given up for adoption are born to young, unwed mothers who are unable to keep their children because of the stigma attached to those born out of wedlock. In western society, this may seem an unusual reason for relinquishment because single parenthood and unwed mothers are more accepted. But Indian societal norms being diff
